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[GENUS GREX BECHSTEIN. 



Crex BECHSTEIN, Orn. Taschenb. Deutschl., II, 1803, 336. Type, by 

 monotypy, Crex pratensis BECHSTEIN = Rallus crex LINNAEUS. 



Crex crex (LINNAEUS). Corn Crake. [217.] 



Rallus crex LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 153. (Sweden.) 



RANGE. Europe and northern Asia; casual in Greenland, Ber- 

 muda, and eastern North America from Nova Scotia to New Jersey.] 



SUBFAMILY GALLINTTLIN-ffl. GALLINULES. 

 GENUS IONORNIS REICHENBACH. 



lonornis REICHENBACH, Syst. Avium, 1852. xxi. Type, by orig. desig., 

 Fulica martinicensis JACQUIN = Fidica martinica LINNAEUS. 



Ion6rnis martinicus (LINNAEUS). Purple Gallinule. [218.] 



Fulica martinica LINN^JUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1, 1766, 259. (Martinique, 

 West Indies.) 



RANGE. Tropical and subtropical America. Breeds from Texas, 

 Tennessee, and South Carolina south through Mexico and the West 

 Indies to Ecuador and Paraguay; winters from Texas, Louisiana, 

 and Florida southward; irregularly north in summer to Arizona, 

 Nebraska, Wisconsin, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Bruns- 

 wick; accidental in England and Bermuda. 



GENUS GALLINULA BRISSON. 



Gallinula BRISSON, Orn., VI, 1760, 2. Type, by tautonymy [Gallimda] 

 gallinula BRISSON = Fulica chloropus LINNAEUS. 



Gallinula galeaia (LICHTENSTEIN). Florida Gallinule. [219.] 



Crex galeata LICHTENSTEIN, Verz. Saug. u. Vogel Mus. Berlin, 1818, 36. 

 (Brazil.) 



RANGE. Tropical and temperate America. Breeds from central 

 California, Arizona, Nebraska, Minnesota, Ontario, New York, and 



